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Originally Posted by romad
Right just like Obama was the peace candidate.......McClellan is going to sue for peace after Sherman takes Atlanta in September three months before the elections...just roll it up and go home when the North controls over half the Confederacy and all the Major coastal positions, just sue for peace and bring everyone home.....he would have been dragged out of office and quartered.
Lee wins Gettysburg How?
First day Lee takes Culps Hill ........Union Army does not deplore in position, battle occurs later somewhere else.
Second day Lee move his right flank around the round tops....actual battle is delayed a whole day..........Union army response and redeploys for day three. Lee how fights on a broken exterior line with paper thin supply lines. Even if he routs the Union Lee has to retreat south.
Three day There is nothing Lee could have done to break the union lines. Only option was to retreat may have extended the war another 6 months- 1 year...maybe.
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Your right it was Culps Hill that Ewell on Lee's left, that should have been taken on the first day.
As far as McClellan goes the taking of Alanta was an election game changer. However one would still think that Lincoln was going to win no matter what. Allthough Lincoln fully expected to lose the election.
No matter what you say you still can't change the facts that McClellan campaigned on ending the war. Further there were many factions in the North that were opposed to the war.